Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 450221
gdm logs user in to absolute $HOME path instead of $HOME
Last modified: 2015-01-14 18:21:22 EST
Description of problem: After upgrading to Fedora 9 and opening a terminal, my shell prompt puts me in the absolute location of my home directory instead of my home directory. My home directory has a symlink in it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.22.0-5.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. My home directory is /server1/home/drees 2. /server1/home is a symlink to /net/server1/home (the folder is auto-mounted) 3. Log in and launch a terminal, look at prompt and check current directory desktop:/net/server1/home/drees> pwd /net/server1/home/drees The shell should display: desktop:~> pwd /server1/home/drees Changing window managers does not change the behavior. With Fedora 8's old gdm I had the correct behavior.
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I think this was fixed somewhere along the way in Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. At least, it works now just fine on the Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 systems I have access to. Closing bug as errata fix as it seems to have been fixed in some update.